Welcome bonuses (or first deposit bonuses as they’re also called) a one of the ways that poker sites compete with one another for your patronage. That’s why they are constantly trying to one-up each other with how much “free money” they can offer players to join their site. Most of the welcome bonuses offer 100% [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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The Full Tilt Online Poker Series XIII just wrapped up, and here are some highlights: the Main Event, and its $453,663 prize, was won by Matthew “Poligraph” Waxman, winner of Event 15 in the last FTOPS XII; he also made another final table inthis latest FTOPS XIII, at Event 56 Jake Toole had the biggest [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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One of the 9 players in the final table for the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, to be played on November 7, just won $45,000 in an online poker tournament. The player is Joe Cada, a 21-year-old from the Detroit area who plays online every Sunday. The tournament was a $150 rebuy tournament [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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Full Tilt Poker has commenced its 2009 season of World Series of Poker satellites and qualifiers. For $200 + $16 up to 81 players at a time can compete in a twice-daily shootout (at 3:30 pm and 9:30 pm ET) with the top prize being a seat in the 2009 World Series of Poker main [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 9, 2009
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The wait is finally over–Full Tilt Poker has announced the schedule for the eagerly-awaited annual event of events: The Full Tilt Online Poker Series. Starting February 4, 2009, the 11th installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (known this year as FTOPS XI) promises more players, more opportunities to win free seats, and–most excitingly–more [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
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After less-than promising reports of low player interaction, the World Poker Tour announced the end of its long-standing partnership with Cryptologic, the gaming software company responsible for many of our favorite online poker sites. Instantly, WPT fans playing at Cryptologic online poker rooms, in part entering satellites and qualifiers to win seats into World Poker [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 4, 2008
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Anyone worried about online poker security need only read the recent story of 26-year-old Brian Townsend to have their concerns assuaged. Multi-accounting is a crime that doesn’t only hurt internet poker rooms but internet poker players as well, as it involves one player misrepresenting himself by playing at the same site under two different usernames. [...]
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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